On March 13 Flying Mojito Bros will release The Swamp Fox. This record will present the London-based duo’s remixes of music from Tony Joe White. White, who passed away in 2018, was known as The Swamp Fox. He is often credited with inventing swamp-rock in 1969 via his first album, Black and White. He subsequently penned songs with Waylon Jennings (“Cowboy Singer”), while artists such as Brook Benton (“Rainy Night in Georgia”) and Elvis Presley (“Polk Salad Annie”) recorded his music.

The new project originated when White’s son and official archivist, Jody White, reached out to the Flying Mojito Bros about working on the remix project. The first single from the album was “Alligator Stomp.” The Flying Mojito Bros described it as “A straight down the line swamp-funk partystarter. We distinctly remember being sat on the couch at Tony Joe White HQ in Nashville at the first of several late nights spent there with Jody listening to the phenomenal amount of archival reel-to-reel recordings – and he drops this absolute badassery…You’ll notice how our version of Alligator Stomp is a bit slower than the original (while still remaining relatively upbeat), allowing the funk to breathe alongside our added muscle.”

A second single, “Makin’ Love Is Good For You” has just been released. The  Flying Mojito Bros say of this one, “Pure Tony Joe brilliance here – he really is a master. Sure, cheeky, but always charming and charismatic with it. It’s this songwriting and swagger – not to mention musicianship – that leads us to consider him our ideal frontman. As with the other tracks from the album, this was reworked from stereo masters – adding effects, restructuring, new beats, melodies. And further for this track, we worked with parts taken from both the studio band recording that originally appeared on the brilliant, sultry ‘Eyes’ LP (1976) and the Home Studio version that was until very recently a totally unheard archival track, seeing light on the newly-expanded ‘Eyes’ album release. Doing this allowed a greater degree of separation to work with, owing to the more sparsely recorded home demo.”

Flying Mojito Bros will celebrate the release of The Swamp Fox with a special performance on March 14 at Nashville’s Skinny Dennis.